To mark the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum on 3 July, Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities Zahi ...

Image A limestone statue of the pharaoh Djoser at the old Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square. (Djoser is famous for his step pyramid, considered the oldest important stone building in Egypt.) ...

Voegelin, Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig Seated on a cushion at the Pharaoh Tutankhamun ... president decided to put Egypt’s collections back on the museum circuit, we obtained ...

Inside the museum, display cases stand empty and shattered and a mummy lies exposed in an open ... from Sudan ruled over much of ancient Egypt, or from the later Meroitic kingdom that built ...

The best way to follow up your trip to the pyramids is by visiting the Egyptian Museum. This massive facility contains more than 100,000 artifacts from ancient Egypt, including sarcophagi ...

She was a protector of Ra as well as a protector of the pharaoh. Just as cats defended the home, Bastet defended Egypt itself ... social classes with a cat mummy to take with them into the ...

Most striking is the famous Step Pyramid, built in the 27th century B.C. by Djoser, the Old Kingdom pharaoh who ... curator of Egypt and Sudan at the Manchester Museum in England, the name Ta ...

Statue of Akhenaten in the collection of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Credit: Prof. Mortel / CC BY 2.0 Recent archaeological discoveries in Egypt are revealing new details about life under Pharaoh ...

And it wasn’t just any Pharaoh; it was Ramesses II, the legendary Ramesses the Great, arguably the most famous and powerful ruler Egypt ever saw during its New Kingdom peak. So, how on earth did a ...

Walking into the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), one of the first things you’ll see is a 36-foot-tall, 82-ton granite statue of Ramesses II, a mighty Egyptian pharaoh who ruled more ... dozens of statues ...